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Xiao Xiangui stood on the tail floor, saw everyone scattered, and said to Li Tu with a straight face: "A good way for the owner to buy people's hearts!" Now no one on the ship remembers me Xiao Xiangui. ”

Li Tu replied lightly: "Going to sea to run a boat depends on people's hearts, and it has to be like this!" ”

Xiao Xiangui smiled and said, "With such a skill, it seems that I didn't choose the wrong person!" Holding Li Tu's hand and saying, Xiao Xiangui said again: "Owner, I heard that Li Dan is now in Xiaoliuqiu Beigang, you are passing by Xiaoliuqiu this time, and you will definitely visit him once and buy his flag." ”

The so-called Xiaoliuqiu is the name of Taiwan in this era. Although Xiao Xiangui is no longer the owner of the ship, he is still the owner of the two ships. Eighty percent of the profits of the two ships are still his. He was still worried about what was going on the ship.

Li Tu was still not used to the hand-holding salute of this era, so he pulled back the hand that was being grabbed by Xiao Xiangui, and said lightly: "Shipowner, we have killed Li Dan's disciple Chen Shengning now, he is probably very unhappy in his heart, where will he sell the flag to us?" Besides, two ships with two flags cost six thousand taels, which is enough to arm a ship with firearms. ”

Hearing Li Tu's analysis, Xiao Xiangui's face turned white, and he was very worried about his two ships of cargo. After thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "I still have to go, even if I try, I have to try." There are many disciples of Li Dan, all of them are bigger than our ship, and if they meet at sea, they will have different hearts. With the flag, these people will not rob us. ”

Li Tu said, "What if he doesn't sell it to us? ”

Xiao Xiangui pursed his lips and said, "That's with us." Some of his disciples robbed the ship at the sight of it, and sooner or later we will be robbed by his disciples. ”

Li Tu looked at Xiao Xiangui and said lightly: "The shipowner is too worried. It's not that simple to rob us of everything! ”

Hearing Li Tu's confident words, Xiao Xiangui also gave birth to a sense of pride. Anyway, if he is not on the ship, he will not fight with his life, Xiao Xiangui is also bolder, and said with a smile: "What the owner said makes sense, even if he is against Li Dan, we are not afraid!" ”

Xiao Xiangui looked at Li Tu and said, "Lord, you are stronger than me when you fight the enemy and command in battle." But if the ship is at sea, do you know what to do if it encounters a storm of rain? ”

Li Tu replied honestly: "I don't know." ”

Xiao Xiangui smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll tell you carefully!" ”

As the owner of the ship, Xiao Xiangui is still very concerned about the safety of the ship. This time will be free, so he pulled Li Tu and seized the time to explain the various keys on the ship to Li Tu one by one, so that Li Tu could master it and grasp the two lucky boats.

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The next day, the weather was still clear, and it was a good day to set sail. Li Tu led the crowd and re-sacrificed the Virgin Mary on the boat.

As soon as a cannon rang out, several boatmen who played music began to blow the suona, and Li Tu and the various priests took their places, reverently incense, and bowed three times and nine bows. Then, everyone prostrated in front of the statue of Our Lady in Heaven to make "three offerings". Li Tu held the incense steadily, and there was no mistake or omission in the whole festival.

Xiao Xiangui stood aside and watched, very happy. After the festival, he pulled Li Tu and said, "Sure enough, this Virgin is dissatisfied with me, not with the boat." Now that I'm not out to sea, there's no problem. ”

Li Tu smiled, noncommittal.

When it was time to set sail, Xiao Xiangui stood on the shore with his family and sent the fleet sailing.

Only a gong was heard, and the main masts of the two ships raised the Li flag. The boatmen turned the rod and put away the anchor little by little. Hanging the hard sails, the boatmen rowed the oars and drove the boat into the deep water. Out of the harbor, as soon as the wind blew, the two boats hoisted their sails and headed northwest.

Passing through the Taiwan Strait and passing through Penghu, Li Tu spent two days leading the fleet to reach the North Port of Taiwan.

Beigang is located in the middle of the west coast of Taiwan, probably in the middle of Yunlin County and Chiayi County in today's Taiwan Province, and was an important port in Taiwan at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Li Dan has been operating here for many years, with residences and commercial buildings. Those maritime merchants whose ships were small and could not afford to run Japan's ocean routes sold their goods from Fujian to here, sold them to Li Dan's merchants, and then sold them to Japan by Li Dan.

The ship gradually approached the North Port, and Li Tu stood on the bow of the ship and looked out, only to see that the four fields on the island of Taiwan were all woods, except for some houses near the North Port in the middle, and the rest were deserted broad-leaved forests. Standing on the boat, Li Tu could see the horizon in the distance at a glance, and felt that the terrain of this place was extremely flat, and it was really a fertile field.

The North Port is not large, and there are more than 20 ships moored on the wharf, of which six or seven are open to the sea, and the others are small boats.

The cargo on the ships Zaixing and Crescent was valuable, and Li Tu was worried about the bad intentions of the people in the port, so he did not let the ship enter the port, but anchored outside the port. Li Tu asked Xue Yiming to lead the arquebusiers to hold the ship, and he himself brought Xu San and a small sampan named Tang Wenzhong into the port.

The boat sailed into the North Harbor, and the three abandoned the boat and landed. After walking a few steps into the port, Li Tu saw that the surroundings were very desolate, only some paddy fields had been opened up on both sides of a stream, and the rest of the place was primeval forest, so he said to Xu San: "Xu Zongpu, what if I transport 10,000 people from Zhangzhou to open up the wasteland here?" ”

After Xu San was promoted to the head shop by Li Tu, he had an honorarium of sixty taels. Three days before Li Tu, the money added fifty percent of the honorarium to the old man on the boat, and Xu San's honorarium became ninety two years. He is a straightforward character, and he has won Li Tu's kindness, and he only thinks about how to cooperate with Li Tu to do good things every day, and he is worthy of this honorarium.

Seeing Li Tu asking himself, Xu San looked at Li Tu and said with a smile: "The owner is so bold!" 10,000 is not a small number! The main thing is to do this, and he is the leader of the party! Moreover, it also saved 10,000 poor people in Zhangzhou. ”

Li Tu smiled and said, "Then you look slowly, your owner is not only so bold." ”

Xu San replied with a smile: "Then I will wait with my eyes wide open, waiting for the owner of Fujia, and I will also follow the chicken dog to ascend to heaven!" ”

Li Tu smiled and stopped talking. The three of them asked for directions in the port, and then walked to Li Dan's house.

Tang Wenzhong is eighteen or nine years old, although he was newly recruited by Li Tu, but his personality is steady. Looking at Li Dan's mansion from a distance, he said to Li Tu: "Owner, you killed Li Dan's disciple Chen Shengning, and now that you are visiting, will this Li Dan do anything unfavorable to the owner?" ”

Li Tu looked at Tang Wenzhong and said with a smile: "Wenzhong is too worried, Li Dan will definitely not embarrass me!" ”

Li Dan's house is in the north of Beigang, it is a Japanese-style samurai house, and there are two saber guards standing at the door. Li Tu handed over the name post, and someone went in to deliver the letter. In the middle of the ring, an attendant dressed as a samurai came out of the courtyard, guided Li Tu and the three into the courtyard, and walked into a side room to wait.

Li Tu, who defeated Chen Shengning, was more valued than Xiao Xiangui, who was timid and afraid, and Li Dan did not let Li Tu wait for a long time. The three of them waited for about a quarter of an hour, and the attendant walked in and took the three of them to see Li Dan.